Selahattin Paşalı

Selahattin Paşalı — Biography

The basketball court, art-management studies in Budapest and then acting classes: that was the route to the screen for Turkish actor Selahattin Paşalı. Most viewers first met him as Osman in the Netflix series Love 101 (Aşk 101); playing Halit in Midnight at the Pera Palace moved him into leading roles. He now plays Nüzhet Erden in Kıskanmak and Kemal Basmacı in the Orhan Pamuk adaptation The Museum of Innocence.

Sport came first: while at school in Bodrum he moved, at fourteen, into the youth basketball ranks of Darüşşafaka and captained his team. He finished high school at Bahçeşehir College, studied art management at university, and at twenty-five came back to Istanbul to train at Craft Atölye. On stage he appeared in Fotoğraf 51 and Martı; his first screen job was Alp Sungur in Kalp Atışı in 2017, followed by Bir Umut Yeter, Leke and Babil.

2022 was his busiest year: he was named Best Actor at the Yeditepe University Dilek Awards for Midnight at the Pera Palace, starred opposite Ece Çeşmioğlu in the single-take film Mukavemet, and shared the lead with Ekin Koç in Burning Days (Kurak Günler, directed by Emin Alper), which premiered at Cannes. In 2023-2024 he led the Star TV series Ömer. He married in Bodrum in 2022, and the couple had a daughter the same year.